Laura Swift
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editor / maker / writer / researcher. Open Access library publishing. Free Palestine 🍉
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get in loser we're poisoning minds through higher education
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over 1 year ago
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Survived 13.1 miles! And raised £350 for
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🎉✨
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Open Press University of Sussex
18 days ago
We are excited to announce the launch of the brand new Open Research Bulletin! Aimed at anyone with an interest in open research, the ORB showcases expert comment, case studies, and practical tips for new researchers and experienced practitioners alike.
www.journals.sussex.ac.uk/index.php/op...
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6 days ago
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗
7 days ago
Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham
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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!
16 days ago
Amazing how publicly some academics are willing to embarrass themselves.
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Zarah Sultana MP
20 days ago
Please retweet.
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I'm running my first ever half marathon in a couple of weeks (😬) and raising money for Medical Aid for Palestinians - if you've got a couple of pounds spare, please sponsor me before Keir Starmer declares it a hate crime
ajbellgreatmanchesterrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/laura-swift
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Laura's half marathon for Medical Aid for Palestinians
I'm running the Manchester half marathon on 31st May to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and refugee camps in Leban
https://ajbellgreatmanchesterrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/laura-swift
21 days ago
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Matthew Sheffield
about 1 month ago
In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass:
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Open Library of Humanities
2 months ago
Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉
www.openlibhums.org/news/931/
#OpenAccess
#ScholComm
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THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers
THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/931/
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Copim
2 months ago
'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference' In this post,
@alittleroad.bsky.social
summarises the recent
#CopimConference
and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here! 👉
copim.pub/exploring-th...
#OAbooks
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Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference - Copim
On 26–28 February 2026, the Copim community gathered for a conference to discuss the future of community-led open access books. This post reflects on that eve…
https://copim.pub/exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books-a-copim-conference/
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Susanne Schregel
2 months ago
Call for Papers "The Far Right, Universities, and Counter-institutional Knowledge Places" Conference, History of Education,
@unicologne.bsky.social
, March 10-12, 2027 Looking forward to your submissions! Deadline May 1, 2026
#histuni
#histedu
#skystorians
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The Far Right, Universities, and Counter-Institutional Knowledge Places | H-Net
Deadline for Paper Proposals: May 1, 2026Places of learning and knowledge production are an important, yet under-researched, battleground for the far right. This conference seeks to deepen academic en...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20145461/far-right-universities-and-counter-institutional-knowledge-places
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Jonathan Portes
2 months ago
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I for one am shocked that he didn't win a byelection in a 30% Muslim constituency
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2 months ago
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
3 months ago
Any time I read a story like this, I immediately scroll down to see if my favourite true crime trope - the absurdly incriminating search history - gets featured. I can confirm that this one does not disappoint.
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Open Institutional Publishing Association
3 months ago
And here are some of our members who are here in person!
#CopimConference
Thanks
@copim.bsky.social
for such a great conference (so far!) and for providing a forum for helpful and informative conversations with such an engaged group of people.
#OpenAccessAdvocacy
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
3 months ago
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/andrew-o-hagan/stay-classy
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to be clear when I say my mission is helping good people make good books, I mean the exact opposite of whatever this is x
3 months ago
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Open Institutional Publishing Association
7 months ago
We now have a presentation from
@lauramswift.bsky.social
from
@openpress.bsky.social
on 'Open educational resources as a chance to do things differently'!
openpress.sussex.ac.uk
#OERs
#OpenAccess
#DiamondOA
#OAWeek
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Open Press University of Sussex
https://openpress.sussex.ac.uk/
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Margot Finn
8 months ago
'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'
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Natasha Simonova
8 months ago
ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
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Aubrey Hirsch
8 months ago
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today!
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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Al Jazeera English
8 months ago
Gaza’s education system has collapsed under the weight of war. Nearly 658,000 school-aged children and 87,000 university students have been left without access to learning as classrooms and campuses lie in ruins. 🔗:
aje.io/r00cl2
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
8 months ago
WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier
9 months ago
Berkeley.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/uc-berkeley-trump-administration-antisemitism
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Zarah Sultana MP
9 months ago
In the past few days, Israel has bombed Doha, struck Tunis over the humanitarian flotilla headed to Gaza and assassinated Yemen’s Prime Minister. These are clear violations of international law. Which other state is allowed to commit such crimes without any consequences?
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after merely 13 years living in Manchester I'm excited to finally set foot inside Beetham Tower tomorrow
#alpsp2025
9 months ago
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Shame on this whole government, may they never know peace. We'll see you in the Hague.
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9 months ago
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Tom Jolliffe
9 months ago
Top local journalism by The Mill in Manchester
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
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Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
https://manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-flags-lee-twamley-salford-smuggler/?ref=the-mill-newsletter
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Rob Palk
9 months ago
"I'm being as racist as I can" tearful Starmer tells voters
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ten million hardbacks
9 months ago
Even if you've never set foot in Oklahoma and likely never will, this is a hell of a read
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History Workshop
10 months ago
Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/history-workshop-editorial-fellowships-2025/
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derek guy
10 months ago
I wrote something for The Sunday Times's style section about how men have been undressing for over a hundred years. And how they should go further and show a little cleavage. Link in the next post.
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Wonkhe
10 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not
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Des Fitzgerald
10 months ago
The good news: I'm alive. The bad news: I'm in England.
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Doug Gordon
10 months ago
Helsinki hasn't had a traffic fatality in a year: "Helsinki's current traffic safety strategy, covering 2022–2026, is nearing completion. It has focused on improving safety for children, youth, pedestrians and cyclists with safer crosswalks and smarter intersection design."
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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831
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Charlotte Lydia Riley
10 months ago
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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Professor Caroline Edwards
10 months ago
I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about
@openlibhums.bsky.social
and scholar-led, non-profit diamond
#OpenAccess
as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.
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Joel S.
11 months ago
This is so much more grave of a violation of academic freedom than a few Oberlin students protesting a speaker. And yet the “Free Press” crew will be completely silent about it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled
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I work here now!
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there's toxic human sludge and then there's Tony Blair helping out in the Middle East
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Zarah Sultana MP
11 months ago
I know where I stand. I stand with Palestine Action.
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Peter Mitchell
11 months ago
I've signed this open letter for writers and publishing workers against the proscription of Palestine Action and so should you:
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Author Statement on the Right to Freedom of Speech
Author Statement on the Right to Freedom of Speech 27 June 2025 Sign the statement here. We are writers, editors, publishers and organisations who care about freedom of expression. Between us we ho...
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1xSs9uKXCbTYHBEbkYo_Rl7FoWMF05NX_EV9jMcEWb6g/mobilebasic?pli=1
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reminder that today is the last day to respond to the EHRC consultation on its updated Code of Practice around the Supreme Court ruling on 'biological sex'. You can respond in as much/little detail as you want and there are loads of helpful prompts here:
transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
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Responding to the EHRC consultation: What do I say? – TransActual
https://transactual.org.uk/equality-act-campaign/responding-to-the-ehrc-consultation/
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Charlotte Lydia Riley
11 months ago
But it’s crazy to see the people who have argued that content-neutral free speech is actually a Very Important Freedom, who are now spitting with indignant fury at Bob Vylan. (It’s v hard to see how his chants would be illegal under current British speech laws so… what are you actually advocating?)
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wint
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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Bob Vylan forever 🇵🇸
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11 months ago
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Felicity Callard
11 months ago
I love this piece for all that it makes clear about why people turn out to campaign for someone who does not bend in the face of onslaught from the right. And for showing why Palestine lies at the heart of Mamdani’s victory
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Zarah Sultana MP
11 months ago
You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead. We must defend the right to protest. Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
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